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Map of the Slave Population of the Southern States

Trace the fall of slavery during the Civil War with this interactive online map of emancipation, drawn from events described in official military correspondence, newspapers, wartime letters and diaries.

Cracking the Maya Code

Follow the centuries-long quest to decipher ancient Maya hieroglyphs.

Presidents FDR, Reagan, Truman, Eisenhower

The Presidents

Who was the first US President to give a televised national address? Which president kept jelly beans in the Oval Office? Find out at this multimedia look at the American Presidents.

photograph: Black Sunday dust storm approaching Ulysses, Kansas, April 14, 1935

The Dust Bowl

Explore the causes and consequences of the worst man-made ecological disaster in American history.

A foot-race: A figurative portrayal of the presidential race of 1824

A New Nation Votes

Search election returns from the earliest years of American democracy.

Panama Canal

On August 15th, 1914, the Panama Canal opened, connecting the world’s two largest oceans and signaling America’s emergence as a global superpower.

Donie Bush, Detoit, 1913, black and white photo

Baseball

The story of America told in nine innings through Ken Burns' examination of the national pastime.

Washington Crossing the Delaware, Emmanuel Gottlieb Leutze

The American Revolution

America's independence from Great Britain was a decisive turning point in world history. Explore the causes, character, and consequences of the American Revolution.

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Repeats every week until Tue Jan 22 2013 .

January 8, 2013 - January 22, 2012

The Magazine
of the National Endowment for the Humanities

Take Me There Now!

The Other Jefferson Davis
The U.S. Capitol, as we know it today, would never have existed without Jefferson Davis.
Not Exactly a Hermit: Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau went in for society, but on his own terms.
Nietzsche Is Dead
The battle for Nietzsche's legacy began when Count Hary Kessler met Elisabeth Forster-Nietzsche.
Friends of Rousseau
Some of the people he has influenced don't even realize it.
The Dramatist
Barbara Tuchman saw history as a grand tragedy
Newton, The Last Magician
The great man of science had more than a passing interest in alchemy.
Let Us Now Praise James Agee
The journalist who pioneered serious film criticism showed a cinematic touch in all of his writing.
To See a Face
Simmie Knox's bumpy road from abstract artist to presidential portraitist.
Julien Green: The End of a World
As Germany occupied France, Green brought Paris to life in his superlative diaries.
Into the Deep
U-boats off the Carolina Coast were part of Germany's attack against American shipping in World War II.
The Thing (or Things) About Wendell Berry
An Appreciation by Mark Bittman
The Strange Politics of Gertrude Stein
Was the den mother of modernism a fascist?
Dating Fashionable Middle-Aged People
A scholar's epic journey to catalog two hundred years of medieval dress.
Deaf Meets Wonderstruck
An NEH-funded documentary inspires a cinematic novel, one to be seen as well as read.
Modern Love
Charles and Ray Eames forged a new sensibility while doing everything and nothing.
Words of America
The final volume of the Dictionary of American Regional English approaches
Henry James and the American Idea
The Atlantic Monthly helped establish the expatriate author as a literary great.
California's Cold War Museum
All things communist -- from the Berlin Wall to Soviet tchotchkes -- find a home at the Wende.